Order of Prestige

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am a little unfamiliar with UC's. Could you guys please rank them in order from most prestige to least prestige</p>

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<p>[ol][<em>]UCB
[</em>]UCLA
[<em>]UCSD
[</em>]UCI
[<em>]UCSB
[</em>]UCD
[<em>]UCSC
[</em>]UCR
[li]UCM[/li][/ol]</p>

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<p>Tier 1:</p>

<h1>1 UC BERKELEY</h1>

<h1>2 UCLA</h1>

<h1>3 UCSD</h1>

<p>Tier 2:</p>

<h1>4 UCI</h1>

<h1>5 UCSB</h1>

<h1>6 UC DAVIS</h1>

<p>Tier 3:</p>

<h1>7 UCSC</h1>

<h1>8 UC RIVERSIDE</h1>

<h1>9 UC MERCED</h1>

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<h1>1 Cal (by far)</h1>

<h1>2 UCLA (clear #2)</h1>

<h1>3 UCSD (distant but clear #3)</h1>

<h1>4 UCD, UCSB and UCI</h1>

<h1>7 UCSC</h1>

<h1>8 UCR</h1>

<h1>9 UCM</h1>

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<p>I like how you all 3 just said the same exact thing basically...and completely left out UCSF</p>

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<p>UCSF is not a university. It does not enroll any undergraduate students and one cannot get a Bachelor's degree from there. It is purely a Medical school.</p>

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<p>ucsf is only a grad/med school. one of the best in the country at that. yet it doesnt have the range of programs outside med/bio that many of the other uc's have, or a undergraduate college. it is extremely good at med school, ranked in the top 5 in the country, and very good at bio related subjects as well. but it is limited to the med/science field only.</p>

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UCSF is not a university. It does not enroll any undergraduate students

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<p>I wasn't aware that you needed undergraduates to be considered a 'university'. Rockefeller University doesn't enroll any undergraduates, and yet it calls itself a university. </p>

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... one cannot get a Bachelor's degree from there.

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<p>Actually, in rare cases, you can. Some rare people will be admitted to UCSF Medical School or Dental School without holding a bachelor's degree. These rare students will then be awarded a BS in either "Dental Science" or "Medical Sciences" from UCSF as part of their medical/dental program. </p>

<p><a href="http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/students/handbook-regulations.html#ad3%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/students/handbook-regulations.html#ad3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/apply/gettingstarted.aspx#courserequiremnts%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/apply/gettingstarted.aspx#courserequiremnts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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It is purely a Medical school.

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<p>Nah, that's not true either. The medical school is only one part of UCSF. UCSF also has a dental school, a pharmacy school, a graduate nursing school, and also runs a number of MS and PhD programs in such things as biomedical sciences, chemistry, and even sociology (specializing in health care sociology). </p>

<p><a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ucsf.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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but it is limited to the med/science field only.

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<p>Perhaps this is quibbling, but I would strongly hesitate to call UCSF's graduate programs in sociology, medical anthropology, or history (of the health sciences) as truly sciences per se. Let's face it. Sociology is not really a true science. Neither are history or anthropology. The best you can say is that maybe they are 'soft sciences'.</p>

<p><a href="http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/ps-dc-s.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/ps-dc-s.htm&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Sakky, I was not going to go into the little details you did. The point I was making is that UCSF cannot be listed along with the remaining 9 UCs when discussing undergraduate institutions.</p>